The person behind the name
Jim Kingston's public life is short and specific: a Savannah childhood in the household of the district's congressman, a career in commercial insurance, years of volunteering and fundraising for Georgia Republicans by his campaign's account and, in 2026, a first campaign that won the Republican nomination for his father's old seat outright. [1][23][30][5]
His campaign biography calls him “a lifelong son of Southeast Georgia” and “a son of Savannah,” raised, in his words, “on the docks and dirt roads of Southeast Georgia,” and says that “Dad spent years representing this district, and Mom kept all of us pointed in the right direction.” The father is Jack Kingston, who represented Georgia's 1st District from January 3, 1993 to January 3, 2015; the campaign page does not name him. The Current reported that Kingston was born in 1990 and is the youngest of four children. The biography identifies his wife as Meredith and says the couple are building their life in the First District. [2][1][14][18][23]
Education and professional preparation
The Current, citing the school's website, reported that he attended St. Andrew's School on Wilmington Island and graduated in 2009, and that the University of Georgia's registrar showed him enrolled from May 12, 2009 to July 31, 2015 without earning a degree; his campaign manager confirmed that he holds no degree and said he left to work on his father's 2014 Senate campaign. The campaign biography does not address education. [18][23][1]
By the campaign's account he has held successive insurance-industry jobs since 2015, beginning at a Johns Creek firm, Partners Risk Services, and moving in 2019 to Ironwood Insurance Services of Atlanta, which Marsh & McLennan Agency announced it had acquired on January 16, 2020. His campaign manager described “kind of a traveling sales role” managing a portfolio of about 30 clients; The Current reported in May 2026 that the campaign website described him as a senior vice president without naming the employer, a title the site as reviewed in September 2026 does not state; and at the April 26, 2026 debate he said he works for the “number one insurance brokerage in the world” and had been “promoted three times in seven years.” [23][1][17][22]
Before running he worked on his father's 2014 Senate campaign, which lost the July 22, 2014 Republican runoff to David Perdue, 245,951 votes to 237,448, and, according to his campaign manager, volunteered and raised money for Georgia Republicans including Sam Olens, Eddie DeLoach, Herschel Walker and Buddy Carter. In 2017 he formed Tarboro Holdings LLC, which state records showed dissolved two years later. Asked at the debate which civic organizations he belonged to, he answered, “My biggest civic organization is the Republican Party.” [9][23][18][22]
He announced for the open seat in June 2025, after Representative Buddy Carter chose to run for the U.S. Senate, and won the May 19, 2026 Republican primary outright with 37,025 of 70,692 votes, 52.4 percent, over five opponents. His general-election opponent, Amanda Hollowell, won the Democratic runoff on June 16, 2026 with 12,618 votes to Joyce Marie Griggs's 11,206. [18][5][6]
A note on the campaign's descriptions. The biography the campaign sent The Current in 2025 called him a “Senior Vice President for a Fortune 500 company” without naming it, and President Trump's endorsement described him as “a very successful Businessman, Civic Leader, and Conservative Activist.” The employer, the scope of the title and the business are not established by any document reviewed here; this profile records the claims as claims. [18][31]
Life & public service
From a congressman's household in Savannah to the Republican nomination for the same seat, the documented milestones show what the record contains and what it does not.
A father in Congress
Jack Kingston represented Georgia's 1st District from January 3, 1993 to January 3, 2015, the seat his son now seeks. [14]
Into insurance
His University of Georgia enrollment ended on July 31, 2015 without a degree, according to the registrar's records as reported by The Current; he then took a job with an insurance firm in Johns Creek, his campaign manager said. [23]
A campaign for Congress
Announced in June 2025 for the seat Buddy Carter was leaving to run for the Senate; a kick-off reception on the Vernon River listed former Senator Mack Mattingly among its honorary chairs, and the campaign said it had raised $750,000. [18]
The Democratic nominee
Amanda Hollowell won the Democratic runoff on June 16, 2026, 12,618 votes to 11,206, to face him on November 3. [6]
Accomplishments, in the record
Election results, Federal Election Commission summaries, a company's acquisition notice and the House's own historical listing establish the following. Kingston has never held elective office, so there are no votes or bills; the record is professional, political and electoral, and it is described at the level those documents support.
A decade in commercial insurance, as the campaign tells it
By his campaign's account, given to The Current by his campaign manager, Kingston has held successive insurance-industry jobs since 2015: first at Partners Risk Services in Johns Creek (the paper also renders the name as Partners Risk Strategies), then, from 2019, at Ironwood Insurance Services in Atlanta. Marsh & McLennan Agency's January 16, 2020 announcement records the acquisition of Ironwood, “one of the leading independent brokers in the Southeast,” with 85 colleagues in Atlanta and Charlotte; the parent describes itself as “the world’s leading insurance broker and risk adviser.” [23][17]
What the documents do not establish: the campaign website, as The Current read it in May 2026, called him a senior vice president and did not name the firm; the site as reviewed in September 2026 states no title, and its home page carries unfilled template text where an employer's name would appear; his manager described a traveling sales role with a portfolio of about 30 clients; Marsh McLennan did not answer The Current's questions about how many of its employees hold that title. Savannah Morning News described him as having worked in commercial insurance, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as an insurance executive, and Club for Growth PAC as an insurance broker. [23][1][2][30][29][32]
A volunteer and fundraiser for Georgia Republicans
His father's 2014 Senate campaign is the one political role the record documents in detail: The Current reported that he drove the candidate across the state and appeared with his siblings in a 30-second ad. The Secretary of State's July 22, 2014 runoff results record the outcome, David Perdue 245,951 votes to Jack Kingston's 237,448. The campaign manager listed later volunteer and fundraising work for Sam Olens, Eddie DeLoach, Ginger Howard, Herschel Walker, Meghan Hanson and Buddy Carter; no document independent of the campaign describes that work. [23][9]
What the FEC filings show
The Federal Election Commission's summary for Friends of Jim Kingston, covering April 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, records total receipts of $1,944,528.39, of which $1,742,078.39 came from individuals ($1,717,961.52 itemized, $24,116.87 unitemized) and $202,450.00 from other committees; no candidate contributions and no loans. Disbursements were $1,650,435.78, including $1,452,910.78 in operating expenditures and $179,525.00 refunded to individual contributors, leaving $294,092.61 in cash on hand. The current statement of candidacy was filed August 10, 2026; the Commission's election page for the district lists the field, though its tables did not render for this review. [10][11][13]
The Commission's candidate page also lists a sponsored leadership PAC, the 13th Colony Leadership Committee. That committee's own page shows a terminated leadership PAC registered on August 21, 2002, with financial periods back to 2001–2002, no receipts and $60.00 in disbursements for 2023–2024, and $1,180.68 in cash at its last reported coverage date, April 15, 2024. The Commission's committee record names its affiliated sponsor as John Heddens Kingston, dates its last statement of organization to February 15, 2012, its last filing to April 24, 2024, and lists no sponsoring candidate identifier. The committee's filings therefore predate the son's candidacy by more than two decades; the listing on his page is the Commission's, not a committee his campaign registered. [10][12][35]
The fundraising is the campaign's most documented advantage. The Current, reading the Commission's reports, put his cash on hand at $1.38 million on December 31, 2025, more than double the rest of the Republican field combined, and at $1.29 million on March 31, 2026 against $410,072 for Patrick Farrell; it also recorded two contributions totaling $4,000 from Representative Jim Jordan's campaign committee on December 16, 2025 and $5,000 from Jordan's Buckeye Liberty political action committee. [20][21][19]
An outright majority in a six-way primary
The Secretary of State's official results for the May 19, 2026 Republican primary in the 1st District, with all 15 reporting units in, give Kingston 37,025 of 70,692 votes, 52.38 percent; Patrick Farrell 12,193, 17.25 percent; Kandiss Taylor 8,875, 12.55 percent; Brian Montgomery 7,088, 10.03 percent; Eugene Yu 3,083, 4.36 percent; and Krista Penn 2,428, 3.43 percent. Clearing 50 percent avoided a June runoff. Of his votes, 20,324 were cast on election day, 16,149 in advance voting, 533 by mail and 19 provisionally. [5][20]
“The general election is a choice — two different visions for southeast Georgia — and I believe conservative leadership will prevail,” he told supporters in Savannah that night, adding, “Tonight we celebrate, and tomorrow we get back to work.” On the Democratic side, Joyce Marie Griggs led the May 19 primary with 19,694 votes, 34.45 percent, to Amanda Hollowell's 14,095, 24.66 percent, and Hollowell won the June 16 runoff with 12,618 votes, 52.96 percent, to 11,206. The Republican and Democratic primaries drew 70,692 and 57,159 votes respectively. [24][30][5][6]
The President, the Judiciary chairman and a PAC
President Trump's Truth Social post of April 14, 2026 gave him a “Complete and Total Endorsement,” describing him as “a very successful Businessman, Civic Leader, and Conservative Activist” and his father as “the GREAT Former Congressman from Georgia.” Club for Growth PAC had endorsed him on March 31, 2026; its president, David McIntosh, said Kingston “will cut taxes, slash regulations, and promote competition in American industry.” Representative Jim Jordan spoke for him at Captain Butler's on Wilmington Island in April, calling him a “good man with the right kind of heart”; The Current reported endorsements from House Republican leaders Jordan and Tom Emmer and from Senator Ted Cruz, and Kingston said at the debate that more than 50 elected officials had endorsed him. The campaign's endorsements page presents its list as images without names in text; the only endorser the site names in words is President Trump, in a banner calling him “The Only Candidate ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP.” Endorsements establish political support; they are not evaluations of a record. [31][33][19][23][22][4]
A district Republicans have held since his father won it
The House's historical listing records Jack Kingston as elected to the 103rd and the ten succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1993 to January 3, 2015. Buddy Carter, who won the July 22, 2014 Republican runoff for the seat, 22,871 votes to 19,632, is serving his sixth term by his official biography; the Secretary of State's results give him 59.15 percent against Wade Herring in 2022 and 61.98 percent against Patti Hewitt in 2024. In the May 19, 2026 Republican Senate primary Carter finished third with 229,223 votes, 25.11 percent, behind Mike Collins and Derek Dooley, leaving the district open for the first time since 2014. [14][9][15][8][7][5][28][30]
Family & community
The campaign biography identifies his wife as Meredith and says the couple “are building our life right here in Georgia’s First District”; it describes a childhood with “a tin boat, a huge extended family, and a deep love for this region,” and says “My brother and sisters and I learned early what service looks like.” The Current reported that he grew up in Savannah's Isle of Hope neighborhood, where his voter registration, updated May 16, 2025, places his residence, and that his campaign says he rents in the area. [1][23]
Community roles as the documents state them are political: the campaign says he has spent years “hosting fish fries, knocking on doors, hauling candidates in my truck,” and at the April 26, 2026 debate, asked which civic organizations he belonged to, he named one, the Republican Party. His parents were listed among the honorary chairs of his June 2025 kick-off reception. [1][22][23]
The campaign biography says he was “raised on the values of faith, family, and service” and that where he grew up “faith comes first”; neither it nor any other document reviewed states a denomination or congregation, and this profile makes no claim about one. [2][1]
Mission & priorities
“I have visited with Georgians across every county in the First District. The message is clear: Defend President Trump, Make America Affordable Again, and stop the madness in Washington. That’s exactly what I plan to do as your Congressman.” {3}
The following summarizes the agenda on Kingston's campaign website and in his public statements. These are proposed priorities from a candidate who has never cast a legislative vote, not completed accomplishments. [3]
01Affordability, taxes and spending
“I will always fight to lower taxes across the board so families keep more of what they earn, and small businesses can thrive.” On spending the platform promises “regular order in appropriations” and a return to balanced budgets. Savannah Morning News reported that he called rising costs the district's biggest issue and, in its race preview, said the district “deserves someone who understands what life actually looks like for the families, farmers and businesses that make this region work.” Club for Growth PAC, which endorsed him, describes him as a supporter of term limits who opposes tax increases; no vote or bill exists to test any of it. [3][30][32]
02Back President Trump
The home page's first plank: “President Trump endorsed Jim Kingston because he knows Jim will help finish what he started and push back against the chaos coming out of Washington.” His closing statement at the April 26, 2026 debate put it this way: “While I’m proud to support President Trump, he can’t do this alone. We need strong soldiers in the legislative branch.” [2][22]
03Secure the border, back the police
“I support deploying more resources for border enforcement to crack down on cartels and traffickers, and a legal immigration policy that is merit-based and focused on safety and our nation’s interest.” On crime the platform backs “tougher penalties for violent criminals, ending sanctuary cities and shutting down the fentanyl pipeline killing Americans.” [3]
04Bases, ports and farms
“Our region’s strength comes from the military, the port, and the people who work the land.” The platform names the installations: “investing in our troops and strengthening our local military installations at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield,” and for rural counties promises “strong farms, fast internet and modern infrastructure” and roads and bridges “without raising taxes.” [2][3]
05Medicaid and Medicare
“I support work requirements for able-bodied adults and no Medicaid handouts to illegal aliens.” On Medicare: preserve it for seniors who have paid in while “rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, and giving seniors more control over their healthcare choices.” Club for Growth PAC's summary adds that he wants less regulation and more competition in the health-insurance marketplace. [3][32]
06Life, the Second Amendment and girls' sports
“I am proudly pro-life and I believe it is our moral responsibility to defend the sanctity of life,” the platform says, naming a ban on late-term abortions and an end to taxpayer funding for abortion providers. “The Second Amendment is not up for negotiation.” He supports the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. [3]
07Energy and trade
“I support more domestic drilling (responsibly), streamlined permitting and an all-of-the-above strategy to keep gas and electricity affordable while cutting off our reliance on foreign adversaries.” On trade: “Fair, reciprocal trade is essential to rebuilding our manufacturing base, protecting national security and growing the American middle class.” [3]
08Elections and education
“I support voter ID requirements, banning ballot harvesting and ensuring that every legal vote counts, and only legal votes count.” On schools: “Parents deserve to know what their kids are being taught, and have the final say.” [3]
How to assess a proposal. A campaign plan states an intention. Enactment, implementation costs, replacement revenue, and measured results are separate questions. These priorities should be read alongside the legislative and voting history above.
The fuller record
A useful profile includes the questions a first-time federal candidate has been asked, the limits of a claim, and responses to material criticism.
“The Atlanta candidate”: residence and the district
Rivals Patrick Farrell and Kandiss Taylor called him “the Atlanta candidate” at the April 26, 2026 debate, a reference to his adult years in Atlanta. The Current reported that his voter registration, updated May 16, 2025, lists as his residence an Isle of Hope home owned by his mother and as his mailing address a Buckhead condominium in Atlanta that he owns, and that while his wife owns property on Isle of Hope, the Chatham County Board of Assessors shows no property in his name. His campaign manager said he returned to Savannah full-time during the pandemic, has worked remotely from there since and rents locally, and that “Anyone suggesting that Jim Kingston’s connection to Savannah is a recent development or political convenience is not being sincere and can’t be taken seriously.” At the debate Kingston answered the suggestion that his return was venue shopping for a seat with “desperate candidates say desperate things,” and added: “My car tag has always said ‘Chatham County.’ My phone number has always said ‘912’.” [22][23]
A father's lobbying, and a “dynasty”
Taylor told The Current in June 2025, “We’re not going to have a seat that is a dynasty with a daddy’s last name,” and at the debate Farrell said Kingston had avoided county forums to escape scrutiny about “coming from a family of lobbyists that represent foreign countries.” The record: Jack Kingston is a principal at Squire Patton Boggs, whose page says he “helps clients address public policy challenges in legislatures and regulatory agencies around the world” and lists him on The Hill's top-lobbyist rolls from 2017 to 2025. Jim Kingston did not answer the lobbying point directly in the debate as reported; he attributed the attention to “being the frontrunner.” President Trump's endorsement praised the father by name. [18][22][16][31]
The degree that was not earned
The campaign's literature says he “attended” the University of Georgia. The Current reported that the university's registrar showed enrollment from May 12, 2009 to July 31, 2015 with no degree earned, and his campaign manager confirmed that he holds no college degree, saying he left to work on his father's 2014 Senate campaign and then accepted a job offer from the Johns Creek insurance firm. The campaign's own biography does not mention education at all; The Current's post-primary story returned to the point as an example of how the campaign has presented the candidate. [23][24][1]
Forums, questionnaires and a curated campaign
Farrell said at the debate that Kingston had shunned candidate forums sponsored by county Republican committees; The Current described a mid-February forum in Blackshear where a place card marked his empty chair, and reported that the campaign declined its repeated interview requests and offered two supporters instead. WTOC's April 28, 2026 questionnaire article, as retrieved for this review, lists responses from six candidates and none from Kingston, and says it would be updated as more candidates responded. He did not directly answer the forum criticism at the debate; he said he had assembled hundreds of volunteers and the endorsements of more than 50 elected officials. [22][23][27]
The money, and where it came from
The fundraising is documented: $1,944,528.39 through June 30, 2026, $1,717,961.52 of it itemized individual money and none from the candidate. The Current reported that roughly $657,000 of the first $750,000 came from the invitees to the June 2025 kick-off reception, whose honorary chairs included a former U.S. senator and a sitting state senator; Taylor's reply to that first haul was “Money don’t buy votes.” The Commission's summary also shows $179,525.00 in refunds to individual contributors; the filings' reasons for those refunds were not reviewed. [10][18]
The 2026 field and the district's lean
Republicans have held the seat since Jack Kingston took office in 1993, and The Current counts no Democrat elected to it since 1990; Club for Growth PAC's page puts President Trump's 2024 margin in the district at 58 percent to 42 and its Cook Partisan Voting Index at R+8, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls it solidly Republican. The independent race ratings on the Ledger's board could not be retrieved for this review. Amanda Hollowell, the Democratic nominee, is a Savannah community organizer making her first run for office whose site promises a “10-Point Affordability Agenda”; the Secretary of State's runoff results give her 52.96 percent. [20][25][32][29][34][6]
Questions & answers
Who is Jim Kingston?
Jim Kingston's public life is short and specific: a Savannah childhood in the household of the district's congressman, a career in commercial insurance, years of volunteering and fundraising for Georgia Republicans by his campaign's account and, in 2026, a first campaign that won the Republican nomination for his father's old seat outright. [1][23][30][5] His campaign biography calls him “a lifelong son of Southeast Georgia” and “a son of Savannah,” raised, in his words, “on the docks and dirt roads of Southeast Georgia,” and says that “Dad spent years representing this district, and Mom kept all of us pointed in the right direction.” The father is Jack Kingston, who represented Georgia's 1st District from January 3, 1993 to January 3, 2015; the campaign page does not name him. The Current reported that Kingston was born in 1990 and is the youngest of four children. The biography identifies his wife as Meredith and says the couple are building their life in the First District. [2][1][14][18][23]
What office is Jim Kingston running for in 2026?
Who is Jim Kingston running against?
He announced for the open seat in June 2025, after Representative Buddy Carter chose to run for the U.S. Senate, and won the May 19, 2026 Republican primary outright with 37,025 of 70,692 votes, 52.4 percent, over five opponents. His general-election opponent, Amanda Hollowell, won the Democratic runoff on June 16, 2026 with 12,618 votes to Joyce Marie Griggs's 11,206. [18][5][6]
What are Jim Kingston's stated priorities?
The following summarizes the agenda on Kingston's campaign website and in his public statements. These are proposed priorities from a candidate who has never cast a legislative vote, not completed accomplishments. [3] The campaign lists: Affordability, taxes and spending; Back President Trump; Secure the border, back the police; Bases, ports and farms; Medicaid and Medicare; Life, the Second Amendment and girls' sports; Energy and trade; Elections and education.
What does the public record show?
Election results, Federal Election Commission summaries, a company's acquisition notice and the House's own historical listing establish the following. Kingston has never held elective office, so there are no votes or bills; the record is professional, political and electoral, and it is described at the level those documents support. By his campaign's account, given to The Current by his campaign manager, Kingston has held successive insurance-industry jobs since 2015: first at Partners Risk Services in Johns Creek (the paper also renders the name as Partners Risk Strategies), then, from 2019, at Ironwood Insurance Services in Atlanta. Marsh & McLennan Agency's January 16, 2020 announcement records the acquisition of Ironwood, “one of the leading independent brokers in the Southeast,” with 85 colleagues in Atlanta and Charlotte; the parent describes itself as “the world’s leading insurance broker and risk adviser.” [23][17]
How was this profile researched?
Reviewed and independently fact-checked September 17, 2026. Jim Kingston has never held elective office, so this profile contains no votes, bills or agency actions; it is a documented overview of his professional, political and electoral record and his stated priorities. His insurance career was read from the campaign's statements as reported, a company's acquisition notice and press accounts, not from employer or licensing records; his education from a newspaper's account of the university registrar's records and the campaign's confirmation. Election figures were read through the Secretary of State's results site and its published data, all marked official; percentages are computed from those official totals. Campaign-finance figures are the Commission's summaries through June 30, 2026 and its committee record for the leadership PAC listed on the candidate's page, not the itemized filings. The campaign website, as fetched, carried unfilled template text on several pages and no job title. The Ballotpedia entry, OpenSecrets and the independent race ratings on the Ledger's board could not be retrieved by the tools used here and are not cited; a birth date, licence records and the campaign's launch release were not part of this review. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.
Sources & methodology
Government records anchor the profile: the Georgia Secretary of State's official results, the Federal Election Commission's summaries, the House's historical listing and a House member's official biography. Original reporting, chiefly The Current's, supplies the professional background, the scrutiny and the campaign's responses; campaign and advocacy materials are used for the candidate's own priorities and for endorsements.
- 01About Jim — A true son of Southeast GeorgiaJim Kingston for Congress (jimkingston.org) · undated; accessed September 17, 2026
The campaign biography in the candidate's voice: upbringing, a father who represented the district, an insurance career, his wife Meredith; it does not name the father, the employer or a school.Campaign or advocacy material - 02Jim Kingston for Congress — home pageJim Kingston for Congress (jimkingston.org) · undated; accessed September 17, 2026
The campaign's summary of the candidate and its five headline planks; the press e-mail, the committee's “paid for by” line and the linked social accounts. As fetched, the page also carries unfilled template text in its issue tiles and where an employer's name would appear.Campaign or advocacy material - 03Platform — The good fight’s not overJim Kingston for Congress (jimkingston.org) · undated; accessed September 17, 2026
Sixteen issue statements in the candidate's voice, from taxes and spending to elections and energy; the source of the quoted planks.Campaign or advocacy material - 04EndorsementsJim Kingston for Congress (jimkingston.org) · undated; accessed September 17, 2026
Presents the endorsement list as images without names in text; the only endorser named in words on the page is President Trump.Campaign or advocacy material - 05May 19, 2026 General Primary — official results (Republican ballot)Georgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · official results; accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. House District 1, Republican primary: Kingston 37,025; Farrell 12,193; Taylor 8,875; Montgomery 7,088; Yu 3,083; Penn 2,428; total 70,692, 15 of 15 units. Democratic primary: Griggs 19,694; Hollowell 14,095; total 57,159. U.S. Senate Republican primary: Collins 369,642; Dooley 275,534; Carter 229,223. Read through the site's results API (elections/Georgia/GeneralPrimary51926/data); marked official. Percentages in the profile are computed from these official totals.Government record - 06June 16, 2026 General Primary Runoff — official resultsGeorgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · official results; accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. House District 1, Democratic runoff: Hollowell 12,618; Griggs 11,206; total 23,824; 15 of 15 units. No Republican runoff was held in the district. Read through the site's results API; marked official.Government record - 07November 5, 2024 General Election — official resultsGeorgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · 2024; accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. House District 1: Carter 220,576; Patti Hewitt 135,281; total 355,857. Read through the site's results API; the linked page shows the same contest.Government record - 08November 8, 2022 General Election — official resultsGeorgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · 2022; accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. House District 1: Carter 156,128; Wade Herring 107,837; total 263,965. Read through the site's results API.Government record - 09July 22, 2014 General Primary Runoff — official resultsGeorgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · 2014; accessed September 17, 2026
United States Senator, Republican runoff: David Perdue 245,951; Jack Kingston 237,448; total 483,399. U.S. Representative District 1, Republican runoff: Carter 22,871; Bob Johnson 19,632. Read through the site's results API.Government record - 10Candidate profile H6GA01109 — KINGSTON, JAMES MORRISFederal Election Commission · accessed September 17, 2026
Financial summary for April 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 (receipts $1,944,528.39; disbursements $1,650,435.78; cash on hand $294,092.61), the open-seat designation, the statement of candidacy filed August 10, 2026 and the listed committees.Government record - 11Committee profile C00908624 — FRIENDS OF JIM KINGSTONFederal Election Commission · accessed September 17, 2026
The principal campaign committee's summary for the 2025–2026 period, matching the candidate page line by line.Government record - 12Committee profile C00381384 — 13TH COLONY LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE INCFederal Election Commission · accessed September 17, 2026
The leadership PAC the candidate page lists as sponsored by Kingston: shown as terminated, registered August 21, 2002, with financial periods back to 2001–2002, $0.00 raised and $60.00 spent in 2023–2024, $1,180.68 cash on hand at April 15, 2024.Government record - 132026 Election, United States House — Georgia, District 01Federal Election Commission · accessed September 17, 2026
The Commission's election page for the district; its candidate and spending tables load by script and were not transcribed for this profile.Government record - 14KINGSTON, Jack — People SearchU.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Historian and Clerk (history.house.gov) · undated; accessed September 17, 2026
The concise biography: born 1955; Georgia House 1985–1993; elected to the 103rd and ten succeeding Congresses, January 3, 1993 to January 3, 2015; unsuccessful candidate for the Senate nomination in 2014.Government record - 15Biography — U.S. Representative Buddy CarterOffice of Rep. Buddy Carter (buddycarter.house.gov) · undated; accessed September 17, 2026
The incumbent's official biography: sixth term in the House, a lifelong resident of the First District.Government record - 16Jack Kingston — PrincipalSquire Patton Boggs (firm biography) · undated; accessed September 17, 2026
The father's current role: public-policy work for clients “around the world,” Washington and Atlanta offices, service in the House 1993–2015, The Hill's top-lobbyist list 2017–2025.Professional or biographical source - 17Marsh McLennan Agency acquires Ironwood Insurance ServicesMarsh & McLennan Agency LLC (company release) · January 16, 2020
The acquisition of the Atlanta broker where Kingston worked from 2019, by his campaign's account; Ironwood's 85 colleagues and offices; Marsh's description of itself as the world's leading insurance broker.Professional or biographical source - 18Jim Kingston enters race for congressional seat with support from GOP stalwartsThe Current (Savannah, nonprofit newsroom) — Craig Nelson · June 30, 2025
The campaign kick-off: honorary chairs, $750,000 raised, the campaign's bio describing a senior vice president at an unnamed Fortune 500 company, birth year 1990, St. Andrew's School, University of Georgia, Tarboro Holdings, and rivals' first attacks on nepotism and the father's lobbying.Independent reporting - 19Top Republican stumps for KingstonThe Current — Craig Nelson · April 11, 2026 (updated April 13)
Rep. Jim Jordan's rally at Captain Butler's on Wilmington Island; Kingston's remarks; December 31, 2025 cash on hand for the field; Jordan's committees' $4,000 and $5,000 contributions.Independent reporting - 20Trump endorses Jim Kingston for Coastal Georgia congressional seatThe Current — Craig Nelson · April 14, 2026
The endorsement post, the six-candidate field, the 50 percent runoff rule, Republicans' hold on the seat since 1993 and the $1.38 million cash-on-hand figure.Independent reporting - 21Kingston, Carter lead fundraising race as primaries nearThe Current — Craig Nelson · April 18, 2026
FEC figures as of March 31, 2026: Kingston $1.29 million cash on hand and $1.81 million in contributions since June 2025; every rival's cash on hand; Carter's Senate race.Independent reporting - 22Kingston challenged in first face-to-face candidate debateThe Current — Craig Nelson · April 26, 2026
The Atlanta Press Club debate on Georgia Public Broadcasting: the “Atlanta candidate” and lobbyist-family attacks and Kingston's answers, quoted verbatim.Independent reporting - 23Kingston campaign gets Trump nod amid questions about ties to father, districtThe Current — Craig Nelson and Caitlin Philippo · May 11, 2026
The registrar's enrollment dates and the absence of a degree, the campaign manager's account of the insurance jobs and volunteer work, the voter registration and property records, the forum absences, and the endorsements by Jordan, Emmer and Cruz.Independent reporting - 24Victorious Jim Kingston awaits November opponentThe Current — Craig Nelson · May 20, 2026
Election-night remarks and the unofficial count; the paper's unofficial 52.7 percent differs from the official 52.38 percent used here.Independent reporting - 25Hollowell overtakes Griggs in Coastal Georgia congressional raceThe Current — Craig Nelson · June 17, 2026
The Democratic runoff, the nominee's background, and the district's history: no Democrat elected to the seat since 1990.Independent reporting - 26Jim Kingston declares victory in GOP primary for Georgia’s 1st Congressional DistrictWTOC-TV (Savannah) · May 19, 2026
The six Republican candidates on the ballot, the district's reach from Chatham to Charlton County, and the late-night victory declaration.Independent reporting - 27GA Dist. 1 candidates share key issuesWTOC-TV (Savannah) · April 28, 2026
The station's six-question questionnaire; the version retrieved September 17, 2026 lists responses from six candidates and none from Kingston.Independent reporting - 28Two Republicans endorsed by President Trump in Georgia congressional racesAtlanta News First (WANF) · April 14, 2026
A second outlet on the endorsement, on Jack Kingston's 1993–2015 tenure and on Carter's Senate bid.Independent reporting - 29U.S. House District 1: Trump-backed Republican faces Democratic organizerThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution · updated June 17, 2026
The two nominees from a 14-person field; Kingston as an insurance executive living in Savannah; the district's Republican lean.Independent reporting - 30Jim Kingston wins Republican nomination for Georgia's U.S. HouseSavannah Morning News — Evan Lasseter (syndicated by Yahoo News) · May 20, 2026
Election-night quotations, the candidate's statement to the paper's race preview, commercial-insurance background, Carter's 2022 margin.Independent reporting - 31Donald J. Trump, Truth Social post of April 14, 2026 (archived by Trump’s Truth)Trump’s Truth, a project of Defending Democracy Together (archive of the President's posts; original linked from the page) · April 14, 2026
The endorsement text and timestamp, 2:28 p.m. Eastern, quoted verbatim.Campaign or advocacy material - 32Jim Kingston (GA-01) — PAC-endorsed candidateClub for Growth PAC · undated; accessed September 17, 2026
Age 35, hometown Savannah, “Insurance Broker”; the PAC's district figures (Trump 58 percent to 42 in 2024; Cook PVI R+8). Advocacy material.Campaign or advocacy material - 33Club for Growth PAC Endorses Jim Kingston in GA-01 RaceClub for Growth PAC (press release) · March 31, 2026
The endorsement and David McIntosh's statement. Advocacy material.Campaign or advocacy material - 34Amanda Hollowell for Congress — home pageAmanda Hollowell for GA (amandaforga.com) · undated; accessed September 17, 2026
The Democratic nominee's site and its “10-Point Affordability Agenda.”Campaign or advocacy material - 35Committee record C00381384 — 13TH COLONY LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE INC (OpenFEC API)Federal Election Commission (api.open.fec.gov, public demonstration key) · accessed September 17, 2026
The Commission's data record for the committee: designation Leadership PAC, filing frequency terminated, affiliated committee name John Heddens Kingston, first statement of organization August 21, 2002, last February 15, 2012, last filing April 24, 2024, no sponsor candidate identifier.Government record
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Voting in Georgia: official dates, deadlines and rules
The general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The dates and rules below were read from the Georgia Secretary of State; the authority's own page, linked beside each one, is the final word.
Dates and deadlines
- Voter registration deadlineOctober 5, 2026 is the last day to register to vote, or to change the address on your registration, for the November 3, 2026 general election. The Secretary of State gives this single date, with no separate online, mail or in-person cutoffs and no time of day. Its FAQ says you must be registered ahead of an election to vote in that election. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
- Absentee ballots start being mailedOctober 5, 2026 is the first day county registrars mail or issue official absentee ballots for the November general election. For military and overseas (UOCAVA) voters, the first day is September 15, 2026. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
- Early voting (advance voting) beginsOctober 13, 2026. Advance voting must begin the fourth Monday before the election; the Secretary of State's calendar notes that the date was moved to the next business day because of a state holiday. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
- Early voting (advance voting) endsOctober 30, 2026 is the last day of advance voting. Within the period, counties must hold Saturday voting on October 17 and October 24, 2026, and may hold Sunday voting on October 18 and/or October 25, 2026. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
- Deadline to request an absentee (mail) ballotOctober 23, 2026 is the last day to request an absentee-by-mail ballot. The application form says the application must be received by your election office 11 days before the election. The request period opened on August 17, 2026. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
- Deadline to return an absentee ballot (received, not postmarked)November 3, 2026 (Election Day): your voted absentee ballot must be received by your county registrar no later than the close of polls; polls are open until 7:00 p.m. This is a received-by deadline: ballots received after the polls close cannot be counted. Military and overseas (UOCAVA) ballots postmarked by the election date are counted if received by 5:00 p.m. on November 6, 2026. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/Absentee_Voting_In_Georgia_Rev_3-30-22.pdf
- Poll hoursPolls are open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, 2026, at your assigned polling place. If you are in line by 7 p.m., you will still be allowed to vote. Read from: sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-voting
Rules to know
- What to bringGeorgia law requires photo identification when voting, either in person or absentee. For in-person voting the Secretary of State lists: any valid state or federal government-issued photo ID, including a free ID card issued by your county registrar's office or the Georgia Department of Driver Services; a Georgia driver's license, even if expired; a student ID from a Georgia public college or university; a valid employee photo ID from any branch, department, agency or entity of the U.S. Government, Georgia, or any county, municipality, board, authority or other entity of this state; a valid U.S. passport; a valid U.S. military photo ID; or a valid tribal photo ID. A free voter ID card can be issued at any county registrar's office or Department of Driver Services office. On an absentee ballot application, give your driver's license number or, if you do not have one, your state-issued ID card number; a voter with neither provides a copy or photo of another listed ID or of a document that shows name and address (current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check or other government document). Read from: sos.ga.gov/page/georgia-voter-identification-requirements
- Voting absentee by mailIn Georgia you can vote by absentee ballot in any election, even if you will not be absent from the county on Election Day. Request the ballot online through the Secretary of State's absentee ballot portal, or send the completed Absentee Ballot Application to your county election office by mail, email (as an attachment), fax or in person. The application asks for your address, date of birth, the county where you are registered, and your driver's license or free state ID number (or a copy of another listed ID). For the November 3, 2026 general election, requests are accepted from August 17, 2026 through October 23, 2026; hospital patients have an extra day to apply. Return the voted ballot by mail in the pre-addressed envelope, in a ballot drop box, or by hand delivery; it must be received by the county registrar no later than the close of polls on Election Day. The Secretary of State's absentee voting guide says postage must be affixed when mailing, and that a voted ballot can be returned by the voter, by a family member designated in O.C.G.A. 21-2-385(a) or by a person living in the voter's household. Check with your county elections office for the drop box locations available to you. If you miss the request deadline, you can still vote in person during early voting or on Election Day. Read from: sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-voting
- Early voting (advance voting in person)Advance voting for the November 3, 2026 general election runs from October 13, 2026 through October 30, 2026. Counties must offer voting on Saturday, October 17 and Saturday, October 24, 2026, and a county can also offer it on Sunday, October 18 and/or Sunday, October 25, 2026. You can vote at any early voting location in your county; find one on My Voter Page or with the Secretary of State's Advance Voting Location Information search. Photo ID is required when voting in person (see What to bring). The Secretary of State's pages do not print daily hours; contact your county election office. Read from: sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-voting
- Track your absentee ballotIf you voted by absentee ballot, you can check its status on My Voter Page, the Secretary of State's voter portal. The same portal lets you check your registration and shows the early voting locations in your county, your assigned Election Day polling place and a sample ballot. If your absentee ballot never arrives, contact your county elections office; it can issue a new one or tell you how to cancel that ballot so you can vote in person. Read from: sos.ga.gov/page/elections-faq
- Fixing a problem with your absentee ballotFor the November 3, 2026 general election, the Secretary of State's calendar sets the absentee ballot cure deadline at 5:00 p.m. on November 6, 2026: the last day voters can cure timely submitted absentee ballots for a missing signature or an information mismatch. The Secretary of State's absentee voting guide says that if the ID number is missing, does not match what is on record, or other documentation is not sufficient, your county will contact you and provide a document with which you can supply the necessary ID to verify your ballot. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
Read from: November 3, 2026 General Election | Georgia Secretary of State · 2026 ELECTION CALENDAR AND HIGHLIGHTS · 2026 ELECTION CALENDAR AND HIGHLIGHTS (2026 Short Calendar) · Election Calendar and Events | Georgia Secretary of State · The Elections Division of the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office | Georgia Secretary of State · How-to Guide: Voting | Georgia Secretary of State — Rules and dates as of Sep 17, 2026
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